Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.
Simone de BeauvoirThe word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
Simone de BeauvoirThe innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of this situation which the one has offered and the other accepted.
Simone de Beauvoir